Arbroath 3-1 Dumbarton
Posted in Dumbarton FC at 21:33 on 27 February 2010
Gayfield, 27/2/10
Well the goals against predictor didn’t need to be changed……
I don’t know why I bother going to Gayfield. We almost never do well there. I don’t think I’ve ever seen us win in Arbroath. Maybe I should just stay away.
Despite the fact we started brightly and the trialist (David Winters) blasted in a great cross by Chissie we soon began to go up blind alleys on our left hand side.
Even though in the first half Arbroath were poor, at half time I didn’t fancy us holding out for another forty five minues.
And so it proved. The midfield became more and more invisible as time wore on and in the end we lost our customary three.
Apart from Dr Jan, only the trialist and maybe Dennis Wyness (who did get the ball in the net for 2-2 but was given offside) of the starters get pass marks. Scott Chaplain and Ross O’Donoghue had the worst games I’ve seen them play – which is saying something. Even Ben Gordon was rubbish; and Chris Smith continues to look like a mistake waiting to happen.
The fans gave Chissie some stick but he was cruelly exposed by lack of support from midfield.
Ross Clark and Derek Carcary improved things a bit but we were chasing the game and pushed up too much, so lost the third goal.
The trialist seems to be a player, though. Onebrow’s verdict on him was he’s too good to sign for us. He and Wyness linked up well and he’d have put Wyness in for a one-on-one if Dennis had been alert enough to it.
Arbroath’s defence looked decent which makes me puzzled as to why they’re so low in the table.
Yet for all the above we’re still fifth.
How?
Tags: Arbroath
bigrab
28 February 2010 at 20:18
Because we’re the fifth best team Jack. Two wins and two defeats this year. Upwards and onwards.
jackdeighton
1 March 2010 at 19:14
Judging by Saturday’s performance we’re not even eighth best, Rab.
I’ll take win, loss, win, loss… till the season’s end, though.
Onebrow
2 March 2010 at 12:56
I’ll certainly settle for anywhere not in the promotion playoffs and above the relegation zone. We really need to give Chissy some cover (not Chris Craig), or switch back to playing a 3-5-2 variant. If we get Winters I can see us having a very succesful partnership up front in Wyness and Winters. Carcary as an impact sub is a fantastic asset (though not on the day clearly).
We were never really in the game in the second half. Arbroath had an answer for anything we threw at them. I can’t imagine our so called support helped though. Not a supportive voice to be heard among them.